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Papua New Guinea & Solomon Islands (Lonely Planet) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Andrew Burke, Arnold Barkhordarian, Rowan Mckinnon
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 493020
Media: Paperback
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1740592077
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.53045
EAN: 9781740592079
ASIN: 1740592077
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
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Product Description
Feel the frenzy of the tribal drums at a Highlands singsing, follow in the footsteps of history on the challenging Kokoda Track, take a slow boat down the mighty Sepik River or dive into a spectacular underwater realm. Let the best and only guide to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands take you on an unforgettable journey.
Watch Wildlife – expert naturalist and bestselling author Tim Flannery gives the lowdown on a wondrous environment where kangaroos climb in the treetops and luminous mushrooms light up the night forest
Enrich Your Experience – a comprehensive Culture chapter connects you with diverse and fascinating communities
Rest Easy – all the best places to bed down, from world-class resort hotels to humble village houses
Be Inspired – new highlights, itineraries and planning sections help you dream it up and make it happen
Get Around – user-friendly maps take you from highlands to islands and everywhere in between
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| Customer Reviews:
 Review May 12, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this book hoping it would be helpful for the Solomon Islands. There was only about 30 pages about the Solomons. This book is a great guide for Papua New Guinea. I would suggest looking for older guides. I bought an older guide from lonely planet that was strictly about the Solomon Islands. It was much better, only the finacial info was definitely out of date.
Wish there was more information about various locations January 3, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book does not really give sufficient information about the villages which are, in fact, memorable experiences. Nonetheless, I am not aware of a better source for information about places in PNG and so recommend that someone traveling to PNG buy this book. There are a few other good books about the culture and art.
 A Very Poor Guide! :-( June 8, 2006
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
Once upon a time, Lonely Planet had a good guide to Papua New Guinea (371 pages), and an excellent one to the Solomon Islands (279 pages). For better or worse these fascinating countries don't exactly attract hordes of holidaymakers, so after leaving those books unupdated for many years, the publisher has now decided to dump them together in this new edition (272 pages).
The result is basically a new, much slimmer guide to Papua New Guinea, with fewer than 30 pages on the Solomons (where it only actually covers half the country even nominally).
Not only has much of the detail been thrown out, the quality of information has also gone downhill sharply! :-(
The authors have very obviously never visited even major tourist destinations of PNG described in the book - as confirmed by owners of accomodations included in it, who told me they had merely received phonecalls from the author who didn't even visit most of the Sepik Region or the Highlands, for example!
Much of the "updating" seems to have been done by surfing the web, and as a result the book abounds in recommendations for expensive, upmarket places and tour-operators that do have websites, while completely ignoring cheaper, budget guesthouses which have no info on the net. Even excellent, small locally owned places that were in previous editions of the PNG guide are conspiciously missing! And as for what the authors consider "budget": their itinerary recommended for budget travellers includes staying at a 150 USD/night resort!
This book is a real shame to Lonely Planet.
If you are planning on resort-hopping on a short holiday, it will be sufficient, but if you want to explore these two countries in depth without spending a fortune, you are far better off trying to find copies of the now out-of-print old editions, which still contain far more useful information than this new guide.
Check Amazon for reviews and availablity of the old Papua New Guinea guide and Solomon Islands one.
Another cheap little book that may well enrich your travels in either of the two countries is LP's Pidgin Phrasebook.
Those keen on getting way off the beaten track in PNG on foot will still find Bushwalking in Papua New Guinea invaluable!
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